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Michael Baers Read Bio Collapse
Michael Baers Read Bio Collapse
Michael Baers is an American artist and writer based in Berlin. He has participated in exhibitions throughout North America and Europe, usually with drawings or offset publications exhibited sculpturally. He has also contributed comics and essays to many publications and print initiatives.
Villa Romana
MANIFESTIAMO
e-flux Announcement
Posted: April 22, 2022
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Education
Subjects
Institutional Critique, Artistic Research
Institution
MISS READ: The Berlin Art Book Festival
Launch of Decolonizing Art Book Fairs and IDEA POLL publications Plus a three-day online program
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Posted: August 17, 2021
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Publishing, Decolonization, Global South
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Göteborg International Biennial for Contemporary Art (GIBCA)
The Ghost Ship and the Sea Change
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Posted: May 7, 2021
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Colonialism & Imperialism, Urbanism
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Historicity & Historiography, Water & The Sea
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e-flux Announcement
Posted: April 28, 2019
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Public Space
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# 91
A First Step Towards a Regional Risk Assessment
Michael Baers
Preface
Late in March of this year I attended a lecture by Professor Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing at Haus der Kulturen der Welt, where she presented a collaborative project, the Feral Atlas, an online repository of stories about the Anthropocene and how humans and nonhumans together make worlds at scale. In her introductory remarks, she spoke of the demand often put forward by humanist colleagues to tell hopeful stories about the Anthropocene rather than view it as an undifferentiated…
e-flux Journal
Posted: May 9, 2018
Category
Nature & Ecology, Capitalism
Subjects
Anthropocene, Climate change
MISS READ: The Berlin Art Book Festival
Miss Read: The Berlin Art Book Festival May 4–6, 2018
e-flux Announcement
Posted: April 29, 2018
Category
Contemporary Art
Subjects
Publishing, Publications
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Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW)
Parapolitics: Cultural Freedom and the Cold War
e-flux Announcement
Posted: September 25, 2017
Category
War & Conflict, Colonialism & Imperialism, Ideology, Surveillance & Privacy
Subjects
Militarization, Knowledge Production
Institution
MISS READ: The Berlin Art Book Festival
MISS READ 2017
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Posted: July 6, 2017
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MISS READ: The Berlin Art Book Festival
MISS READ: The Berlin Art Book Fair
e-flux Announcement
Posted: May 31, 2016
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Art Market
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Steirischer Herbst
Visual arts programme
e-flux Announcement
Posted: September 18, 2015
Category
Performance, Dance, Theater
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Cda-Projects Grant
Cda-Projects Grant for Artistic Research and Production 2013: Michael Baers
e-flux Announcement
Posted: January 22, 2014
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e-flux journal
e-flux journal issue 39 out now
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Posted: November 13, 2012
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e-flux journal
e-flux journal issue 39 out now
e-flux Announcement
Posted: November 13, 2012
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# 39
Michael Asher (1943–2012): Parting Words and Unfinished Work
Michael Baers
1.
Early in the afternoon of Wednesday, October 17, I got a call from a friend and fellow alumnus of CalArts with the news that Michael Asher had passed away. I set down the phone and quickly scanned the obituaries in the Los Angeles Times and the New York Times . And then that sinking feeling set in. I had not been in contact with Michael for some years, but in the nature of a death both expected and untimely (I was aware he was in poor health), I was not prepared for how the news…
e-flux Journal
Posted: November 1, 2012
Subjects
Conceptual & Post-Conceptual Art, Memorials & Obituaries
# 34
No Good Time for an Exhibition: Reflections on the Picasso in Palestine Project, Part II
Michael Baers
→ Continued from “No Good Time for an Exhibition: Reflections on the Picasso in Palestine Project, Part I.”
The poems, at least in translation, left me unmoved, except for the beauty of the calligraphy. They were about struggle and disaster, but I couldn’t make anything of the imagery, which was all about doves and damsels and honey.
—Jean Genet 1
1. The Usual Form of Events
For the official opening five days later, Khaled Hourani staged a gala event. Buste de…
e-flux Journal
Posted: April 1, 2012
Category
War & Conflict, Image, Photography, Colonialism & Imperialism
Subjects
Middle East, Museology, Exhibition Histories, Palestine
# 33
No Good Time for an Exhibition: Reflections on the Picasso in Palestine Project, Part I
Michael Baers
There is no vision without details.
—Hussein Barghouti
The psychic and geographical center of Ramallah is Al Manarah Square, a traffic roundabout where five streets converge at irregular angles. Cars and people circulate in apparent chaos around five carved lions statues—symbolizing Ramallah’s five prominent families—which encircle a single Corinthian column, as if standing guard. One lion wears a wristwatch, and depending on one’s sense of the ironic, this detail can be read…
e-flux Journal
Posted: March 1, 2012
Category
War & Conflict
Subjects
Middle East, Museology, Exhibition Histories, Palestine, State & Government
e-flux journal
e-flux journal issue no. 26 “Artistic Thinking”
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Posted: July 15, 2011
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e-flux journal
e-flux journal no. 26
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Posted: June 30, 2011
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# 26
Inside the Box: Notes From Within the European Artistic Research Debate
Michael Baers
1. Setting the Stage
December 4, 2010, Murcia, Spain. The lights had come on in the auditorium following a screening of As the Academy Turns , Tion Ang’s telenovela-style exposé of machinations in the contemporary art academy, and it was time for the obligatory Q&A. The audience, professors of art and their PhD students, cautiously assayed questions concerning methodology and budget, but Ang, in the grips of an apparent somnambulism, hazarded vaguely mechanical answers and…
e-flux Journal
Posted: June 1, 2011
Category
Education, Gender, Contemporary Art
Subjects
Academia, Racism, Europe, Artistic Research
unitednationsplaza
unitednationsplaza archive: online now
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Posted: January 21, 2011
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e-flux
e-flux journal reader 2009
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Posted: January 5, 2010
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ArtSchool Palestine
ArtSchool Palestine presents The Other Shadow of the City
e-flux Announcement
Posted: October 2, 2009
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The inaugural e-flux reader collects essays from the first eight issues of the journal, which take up the task of revitalizing the critical vocabulary of contemporary art by engaging new territories.
e-flux Books
Posted: October 1, 2009
Category
Museums, Architecture, Education, Contemporary Art, Installation
Subjects
Art Criticism, Archeology, Collaboration, Conceptual & Post-Conceptual Art, Contemporaneity, Knowledge Production, Media theory , Publishing, Artistic Research
# 07
e-flux Journal
Posted: June 1, 2009
Category
Economy
Subjects
Collaboration, Scandinavia, State & Government
e-flux journal
e-flux journal issue #6: EXCAVATING THE FUTURE
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Posted: May 19, 2009
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e-flux Announcement
Posted: May 14, 2009
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# 06
e-flux Journal
Posted: May 1, 2009
Subjects
Accidents & Disasters, Europe, Infrastructure
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e-flux journal issue #5–out now
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Posted: April 22, 2009
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Posted: April 13, 2009
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# 05
e-flux Journal
Posted: April 1, 2009
Category
Image
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Scandinavia